What do you want them to play at your funeral?
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Sort of, Sacha - we grew up with a lot of militaria stuff, including the behaviours and the ethos, all around(I was born in 1947)but most of family service people had been demobbed by the time I came to be alive. By the time my youngest sibs (I'm oldest of 8 born, 5 living) arrived. all that stuff had pretty well gone.
I've just sent that sketch on to one of my cousins, who was Navy (and was on the deck of the "Black Prince" when she was stood by for one of the atomic bomb tests) - he literally lives for this kind of stuff! Loves it!
Teh Intertubes help!
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Electric light orchestra. If anything unforeseen should happen.
70's ELO? Right on.
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Thanks for posting that Sacha, I had relatives in the RCAF during the war - my Dad was a navigator on the bombers, my Mum was a wireless operator, and my uncle Kenneth was a wing commander. I will pass the sketch on to my Dad (the only one still alive). Cheers for that!
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70's ELO? Right on.
ELO: underrated. I don't care how much everyone hates Jeff Lynne.
I have funeral music issues. I can't work out whether I'd want 'songs I think are awesome, which I am forcing everyone to listen to, no matter how inappropriate' or 'beautiful songs which would fit the occasion'.
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Dyan, your Dad might also need to know what a chav is to get the other half of the joke.
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Danielle- I think there's a middle ground of "this awesome song helped me through some tough times - maybe it can do the same for you." which is worth striving for.
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Dyan, your Dad might also need to know what a chav is to get the other half of the joke.
Thanks for that, Sacha, he would not know what that was.
Though I think the age of the guys alone will be enough to crack him up - if you were over 24 or 25 in the crew, you got nicknamed Granpappy. My Mum said he shaved once a week when she met him.
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that Con Conrad song Enjoy Yourself (It's Later Than You Think)
There is a very recent version by Jolie Holland, on "The Living and the Dead" (2008). She laughs a lot.
Jeez--how long has this been going on?
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There is a very recent version by Jolie Holland, on "The Living and the Dead" (2008). She laughs a lot.
Jeez--how long has this been going on?It used to be called "The Continental Song" and was written by Carl Sigman and lyrics by Herb Magidson, and won an academy award for best song in Fred Astaire and Ginger Roger's film "The Gay Divorcee".
It got re-named "Enjoy Yourself (It's Later than you think) mainly because that's what everyone called it. It was a hit again, when recorded by Con Conrad, during the war years (or maybe a bit before) but became a huge hit when recorded by Guy Lombardo and the Royal Canadians, in 1949.
I can't believe I know all that.
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and won an academy award for best song
Oh, in 1934 I meant to say.
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Sadistic Mika Band -
It ain’t what you know, it’s what you feel
Don’t worry about being right, just be for real
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